Courses Taught

PLSC101 - World Politics: Analysis of contemporary (post-1945) state system and forces shaping the world in which we live. Student is given a framework within which to analyze contemporary international politics.

PLSC285 - Comparative Government II: Non-Western Systems: Analyzes major non-Western political systems with emphasis upon authoritarian and totalitarian systems. Analyzes and compares in a systematic manner their political cultures, political institutions, and political processes.

PLSC280 - Comparative Government I: Western Systems: Analyzes Western political systems with emphasis upon major contemporary democratic governments of Europe. Analyzes and compares their political cultures, political institutions, and political processes.

PLSC383/583 - Political Systems: Asia: Intensive, comparative study of the government and politics of a selected region. Suggested prerequisite(s): PLSC 280 and/or 285.

Areas of Specialization

My professional interests include East Asian politics and international relations, comparative politics, and international relations, particularly modern diplomacy. I am currently writing a book entitled The East Asian Quadrangle which examines the dynamic constants of the relationship of the four major powers in East Asia from the 1890s to the present day. I also have a personal website available.

Vitae

Educational Background:

University of Michigan: Ph.D., 1994. Major Field: Comparative Politics, emphasizing Chinese domestic politics, political-economy and foreign policy, Japanese domestic politics, political-economy and foreign policy. Passed major preliminary exam with score of "excellent." Minor Field: World Politics, emphasizing East Asian international relations and international political economy.

Dissertation topic: "In Whose Image? Policy Diffusion and Policy Process in the Chinese Steel Industry 1977-1991." Co-chairs and advisors: Michel C. Oksenberg and Kenneth G. Lieberthal. My dissertation examined the development and change of Chinese policy-making processes since 1977 using the ferrous metallurgical sector as a case study. The focus of the dissertation was on the increasing external influences on the domestic policy process of China, particularly the diffusion of other East Asian countries' industrial strategies to China.

Stanford University: A.B. with Distinction in International Relations, 1981. Major: International Relations.

Publications, Book Reviews and Articles:

Political Science:

"Active Learning in International Studies and Teaching with Technology " In Robert Denemark, eds The International Studies Compendium Project. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

“China’s Terrorism Agenda,” The Twenty-Sixth: The Academic Journal of Government and Politics [IUP political science student association publication], Spring 2002.

"Introduction: A Typology for Stability and Instability in China." Chapter in Is China Unstable? Edited by David Shambaugh. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Originally published as "Conference Summary." Chapter in Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors, edited by David Shambaugh. Washington D.C.: Sigur Center for Asian Studies, 1998.

In Preparation, Conference Papers and Presentations:

“Orcs and Gnomes Living Together? Realism Through Fantasy in Teaching International Relations Through “World of Warcraft,” co-authored with Andrea M. Lopez (Susquehanna University), International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, 3 April 2012.

“China’s Good Neighbor Policy: Or, How to Be a Regional Hegemon and Still Be Liked,” Asian Studies Development Program National Conference, Seattle Washington, 31 March 2012.

“Chinese Foreign Aid in Africa: A Reassessment of the 1970s.” Presentation at International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 28 February 2007.

“Interactive Simulations in International Relations, Or What Every Discussant Needs to Know.” Presentation at International Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1 March 2007.

“China’s Good Neighbor Policy: Relations with Vietnam and Indonesia in Comparative Context.” Presentation at International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, 22 March 2006.

“Gaming and Simulation Using Microsoft Excel.” Presentation at International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, 25 March 2006.

“A Cannon of IR Literature? How We Choose to Teach Our Students.” Panel discussant at International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, 22 March 2006.

“Using Technology to Enhance Communication and Understanding at Public Meetings: PowerPoint and Municipal Government,” Presentation at the Association for PA Municipal Management: Western Executive Development Conference. February 28, 2002, Nemacolin Resort, PA.

“Breaking the Bandwidth Barrier: CD-ROM/Web Hybrids in Distance Education,” Presentation at the 12th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, FL, April 2001. Co-authored with Dr. Glenn Himes.

“Old Fashioned Negotiations with High Technology: WebCT and Diplomatic Simulations in World Politics,” Presentation at the 12th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, FL, April 2001. (Award presentation for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology).

The East Asian Quadrangle. Manuscript in preparation for the University of Washington Press. [Originally co-authored with Michel C. Oksenberg].

“Five Years of Slides: Times Series Review of PowerPoint Use.” Presentation at the ADEPTT 2000 Conference, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, October 21, 2000.

"Teaching World Politics via WebCT: Lessons and Implications,” Presentation at the Faculty Academy of the School of Information Technology at Pennsylvania State University, August 3, 2000.

"Conference Summary." Rapporteur's Report for conference "Forging a Policy Consensus: Making China Policy in the Bush and Clinton Administrations," hosted by the Miller Center for International Affairs, University of Virginia, December 3-5, 1999. Volume editors Ramon Myers, Michel Oksenberg, and David Shambaugh.

"Getting a Campus On-Line with WebCT." Presentation at the ADEPTT Conference, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, October 1999.

"Development of Steel Industry Patterns." Paper presented to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, University of Munich, July 1997.

“Post-Mao Chinese Steel Strategy: Emulation, Projection and Diffusion in Industrial Policies.” Paper presented to International Conference on the Economies of Greater China, University of Western Australia, Perth, July 6-9, 1997. Conference sponsored by the Chinese Economic Studies Association of Australia and the University of Western Australia.

"China's 'Good Neighbor' Policy." Paper presented to the Workshop on the Modernization of China's Diplomacy, East-West Center, 28 January 1995. Conference sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, the Washington Center, and East-West Center.

"The Modernization of China's Diplomacy: Introduction." Paper presented to the Workshop on the Modernization of China's Diplomacy, East-West Center, 28 January 1995, co-authored with Wang Jianwei and Lin Zhimin.

Instructor, Political Science 150, "State and Local Politics": Winter 1990.

Global Leadership Program of the University of Michigan Business School Executive Education Center:

Deputy Director, January 1992-September 1992

Research Associate, May 1988-September 1991

Solely responsible for substantive research and writing of four comprehensive briefing books on China, India, Brazil, and Soviet Union/Russia, supervising four research assistants and six MBA Fellows. Also responsible for arrangement of country visits by top-level executives to Washington D.C., China, India, the USSR/Russia and Brazil from 1989 to 1992. Involved in program curriculum design, research design and management. Responsible for executive tour of China and India in 1989 and arranged and accompanied executive visit to China in 1989, 1990 and 1991.

English instructor, September 1981 to March 1983. Designed and taught courses in conversational and technical English. Assigned through Volunteers in Asia, a small volunteer organization similar to the Peace Corps based at Stanford University.

Volunteers in Asia:

Taught courses in the spring of 1983 and 1984 on the methods and techniques of Teaching English as a Second Language for outgoing volunteers.

Conferences and Professional Associations:

Rapporteur for conference organized by Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution on "The State of the China Field" at the Aspen Institute, Wye Plantation, Maryland, July 1988. Conference volume edited by David L. Shambaugh, American Studies of Contemporary China, forthcoming, M. E. Sharpe, 1993.

Rapporteur for conference organized by the University of Michigan School of Business Administration on "Setting the Global Research and Teaching Agenda for the 1990s" at the University of Michigan June 1990. Conference volume edited by Vladimir Pucik, Noel N. Tichy and Carol K. Barnett, Globalizing Management : Creating and Leading the Competitive Organization (New York: Wiley, 1992).

Member, Association for Asian Studies.

Member, American Political Science Association.

Awards, Grants, Fellowships and Professional Development:

Summer Workshop on Teaching Terrorism, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg VA, June 10-18, 2006.

Asian Studies Development Program of the East-West Center, Workshop on “Cultures of Authority in Asian Practice: Authority Community and State: Political Culture in Asian Contexts.” Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, October 23-27, 2002.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on “Empowering Relationships: Ways of Authority in Japanese Culture.” East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, June-July 2002.

Sabbatical Leave, Fall 2001.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Distinguished Faculty Award for Service, 2001.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Graduate School and Research Sponsored Programs Award for Outstanding Achievement in Curriculum and Instruction for the US Department of Education Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology Grant (Drs. Kurt Dudt and Nancy Yost, Co-Directors).

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Instructional Design Center/ Center for Teaching Excellence's award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology, December 2000. Award to be granted at the Twelfth Annual Conference on College Teaching and Learning in Jacksonville, Florida. April 17-21, 2001.

US Department of Education Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant, June 1999. (member of writing and operation team; funded at $1.7 million)

Bell Atlantic ADEPTT Grant for training faculty and teachers to use technology in the classroom, February 1998 (member of writing team; funded at $600,000).

State System of Higher Education of Pennsylvania, Faculty Professional Development Committee, Faculty Research Grant, "An Interdisciplinary Instructional Module for Developing Critical Thinking: How Do We Manage the Rainforest?" Summer 1998 (with Drs. Dennis Ausel and Jerry Pickering).

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective,” University of Munich, June-August 1997.

State System of Higher Education of Pennsylvania, Faculty Professional Development Committee, University Special Project Award, Co-Director (with Dr. Dennis Ausel): “Teaching Teachers to Teach with Technology,” for faculty workshop August 25-29, 1997.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Senate Research Committee Grant for travel to Australia, Spring 1997.

Teaching Interests:

Comparative Politics: Government and politics of China; government and politics of Japan; government and politics of East Asia; comparative industrial policies; comparative democratization; Middle East and South Asia; bibliography, research and on-line information sources.

World Politics: Chinese foreign relations; Japanese foreign relations; international relations of East Asia; international political economy; international relations of Africa; international security; military history.

Public and Scholarly Service Internship:

University Service:

Chair, Department of Political Science, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1999 —2008

Webmaster, IUP Department of Political Science, 1996 —2001, 2008—.

Co-Chair, IUP University Council of Chairs, 2000-2001.

Co-Chair, IUP Association of Pennsylvania College and University Faculties (APSCUF) Faculty Education for Action and Response Committee, 1997 —2001.

Webmaster, IUP Association of Pennsylvania College and University Faculties (APSCUF), 1998 — 2004 the effect of the website in the 1999 contract negotiations was reported in Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 November 1999, p. A57 and in Academe, Jan.-Feb. 2000, p. 16)

Chair, Association of Pennsylvania College and University Faculties State Public Relations Committee, 2002 — 2006.

Alternate, Association of Pennsylvania College and University Faculties State Negotiations Team, 2006 —2007.

US Department of State: Summer 1985 served as an intern at the State Department, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific, China Division (INR/EAP/CH). Worked under Christopher Clarke, was responsible for analysis of Chinese domestic and foreign policy.

Public Information Service:

“Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Great Decisions Series public lecture, sponsored by IUP School of Continuing Education, February 2009.

“China and the United States Trade Relations,” Great Decisions Series public lecture, sponsored by IUP School of Continuing Education, March 2008.

“Central Asia,” Great Decisions Series public lecture, sponsored by IUP School of Continuing Education, March 2007.

“China and India: Partners or Competitors?,” Great Decisions Series public lecture, sponsored by IUP School of Continuing Education, March 2006.

“China,” Great Decisions Series public lecture, sponsored by IUP School of Continuing Education, March 2005.

“Public Diplomacy,” Great Decisions Series public lecture, sponsored by IUP School of Continuing Education. March 30, 2004.

“China in Transition,” Great Decisions Series public lecture, sponsored by IUP School of Continuing Education. March 13, 2003.